Quote:
We want to give Judaism the position in our public and state life which it accords according to God’s clearly and clearly revealed will. God scattered the Jews into captivity among all peoples as a punishment. It is therefore a sin for a Christian nation to abandon its most sacred public and state affairs to the prisoners of God and thereby to the cooperation of anti-Christian influences. As Christians we have the duty to grant the Jews protection and justice, to put them as fellow human beings before the civil law completely on an equal footing with us, but to exclude them in principle from our citizenship, not because they are Semites or Jews, but because they are non-Christians (Antichrists ) are.
Source:
Electoral Association of the German Conservatives (ed.), Shorthand report on the General Conservative Party Congress, Berlin 1893, 21-22.
Author Bio:
The electoral association of the German Conservatives, founded at the end of the 19th century, was characterized by a strictly Christian, national-conservative program.
Context:
Part of it was a pronounced hostile attitude towards social democracy, anarchists and Jews, each of whom they described as subversives without a fatherland or as disintegrators of German-Christian popular life. The Protestant theologian and politician Adolf Stoecker had no small influence on the anti-Semitic and anti-socialist thrust of the association.
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Year:
1893